Anne Shirley (Complete 14 Book Collection). Люси Мод Монтгомери

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      Marilla looked curiously at Anne when the latter entered the kitchen.

      “Who was that came up the lane with you, Anne?”

      “Gilbert Blythe,” answered Anne, vexed to find herself blushing. “I met him on Barry’s hill.”

      “I didn’t think you and Gilbert Blythe were such good friends that you’d stand for half an hour at the gate talking to him,” said Marilla with a dry smile.

      “We haven’t been — we’ve been good enemies. But we have decided that it will be much more sensible to be good friends in the future. Were we really there half an hour? It seemed just a few minutes. But, you see, we have five years’ lost conversations to catch up with, Marilla.”

      Anne sat long at her window that night companioned by a glad content. The wind purred softly in the cherry boughs, and the mint breaths came up to her. The stars twinkled over the pointed firs in the hollow and Diana’s light gleamed through the old gap.

      Anne’s horizons had closed in since the night she had sat there after coming home from Queen’s; but if the path set before her feet was to be narrow she knew that flowers of quiet happiness would bloom along it. The joy of sincere work and worthy aspiration and congenial friendship were to be hers; nothing could rob her of her birthright of fancy or her ideal world of dreams. And there was always the bend in the road!

      “‘God’s in his heaven, all’s right with the world,’” whispered Anne softly. softly.

      ANNE OF AVONLEA

       Table of Contents

       I. An Irate Neighbor

       II. Selling in Haste and Repenting at Leisure

       III. Mr. Harrison at Home

       IV. Different Opinions

       V. A Full-fledged Schoolma’am

       VI. All Sorts and Conditions of Men … and women

       VII. The Pointing of Duty

       VIII. Marilla Adopts Twins

       IX. A Question of Color

       X. Davy in Search of a Sensation

       XI. Facts and Fancies

       XII. A Jonah Day

       XIII. A Golden Picnic

       XIV. A Danger Averted

       XV. The Beginning of Vacation

       XVI. The Substance of Things Hoped For

       XVII. A Chapter of Accidents

       XVIII. An Adventure on the Tory Road

       XIX. Just a Happy Day

       XX. The Way It Often Happens

       XXI. Sweet Miss Lavendar

       XXII. Odds and Ends

       XXIII. Miss Lavendar’s Romance

       XXIV. A Prophet in His Own Country

       XXV. An Avonlea Scandal

       XXVI. Around the Bend

       XXVII. An Afternoon at the Stone House

       XXVIII. The Prince Comes Back to the Enchanted Palace

       XXIX. Poetry and Prose

       XXX. A Wedding at the Stone House

      I. An Irate Neighbor

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      A tall, slim girl, “halfpast sixteen,” with serious gray eyes and hair which her friends called auburn, had sat down on the broad red sandstone doorstep of a Prince Edward Island farmhouse one ripe afternoon in August, firmly resolved to construe so many lines of Virgil.

      But an August afternoon, with blue hazes scarfing the harvest slopes, little winds whispering elfishly in the poplars, and a dancing slendor of red poppies outflaming against the dark coppice of young firs in a corner of the cherry orchard, was fitter for dreams than dead languages. The Virgil soon slipped unheeded to the ground, and Anne, her chin propped on her clasped hands, and her eyes on the splendid mass of fluffy clouds that were heaping up just over Mr. J. A. Harrison’s house like a great white mountain, СКАЧАТЬ